The House of Seleucus
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- Author: Edwyn Robert Bevan
- Date Published: March 2016
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- isbn: 9781108082778
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Edwyn Bevan (1870–1943) remarks in his preface to this two-volume work of 1902 that there is 'much to discourage an attempt to write a history of the Seleucid dynasty'. However, Bevan, a scholar of early Christianity as well as of the Hellenistic period, pulls together written and archaeological sources to describe the creation of an eastern empire by Seleucus, one of the successors of Alexander the Great. After an introduction on Hellenism in the east, Bevan describes the conflict between the generals after Alexander's death, and the complexity of the events which led Seleucus from governorship in Babylon to exile, and to the eventual conquest of an empire which spread from the Aegean Sea to the borders of India. Volume 1 covers the period until the succession of Antiochus III in 222 BCE, and Volume 2 continues until the disintegration of the dynasty in the last century BCE.
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- Date Published: March 2016
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108082778
- length: 716 pages
- dimensions: 224 x 142 x 45 mm
- weight: 0.8kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from February 2022
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Hellenism in the east
2. The physical environment
3. Perdiccas
4. Events in the east, 321–316
5. Seleucus conquers the east
6. From Ipsus to the death of Seleucus
7. The problems of Asia Minor
8. Antiochus I, Soter
9. Antiochus II, Theos
10. Seleucus II, Kallinikos and Seleucus III, Soter
11. Syria
12. Babylonia
13. Iran
14. India
15. The first years of Antiochus III (223–216)
Appendices. Volume 2:
16. Achaeus
17. The reconquest of the east
18. The conquest of Palestine
19. The advance of the west
20. The war in Greece
21. The war in Asia
22. The interval of peace
23. Antiochus IV and the conquest of Egypt
24. Antiochus the god manifest
25. Antiochus and the Jews
26. Antiochus V Eupator
27. Demetrius the saviour
28. Alexander I and the Ptolemaic ascendancy
29. The Cretan tyranny
30. Antiochus Sidetes
31. The last convulsions
32. Government, court, and army
Appendices
Index.
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